Leithart continues his response to Witherington by noting:
I can agree that Jesus’ victory is the “antithesis” of the victory expected by many Jews. But Jesus remains a warrior Messiah, which is exactly what we would expect from the Old Testament. All the warrior figures of the Old Testament – the Seed of the Woman, Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Samson, David – are paradoxical figurae Christi